Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls - Laurel Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THE LAUREL To Miss Ward, we leave an Old English printing machine, a poor sub- stitute for her own Fine work, but a time saver. To Miss Forrest, we leave one dozen, standard size, traHic signals to be placed at each landing. To Miss Scott, we leave a bevy of girls to be stationed at various patrols every period of each day. ' To Miss Austin, we leave an automatic comptometer to add up the final total of the Scholarship Play proceeds. To Miss VVhiting, we leave a halo so that people may know her for the angel she is. To Miss Anthony, we leave a bunch of carrots to make up part of the deficit caused by some hungry biologists. To Miss Corkery, we leave a class that is always ready for the unex- pected opportunity. To Mr. Denvir, we leave a two column space on page one of a Boston newspaper for him to write anything he pleases. To Mr. Conway, we leave a record album of the Three B's,' with poeti- cal footnotes by Milton, Tennyson, and Browning. To Dr. Delano, we leave a new laboratory since we ruined the old one by mixing the soul invention of the Class of ,44. To Miss Rowlinson, we leave saddles and ankle socks so that the new sophomores will be stumped as to just who is the teacher. To Miss McCauley, we leave four two-celled atoms to be dissected by the more nimble-fingered biologists. To Miss Hayes, we leave a dozen ''handsome''microscopes to magnify those Ustunningu hemoglobins. To Miss Fallon, we leave our shoe ration stamps that her shoes may continue to complement her costumes. To Miss Brown, we leave a reservation for herself and forty students at a choice VVashington hotel. We're sorry, but the soonest reservation is for 1955. To Miss Hall and Miss Cromwell, we leave six electric light bulbs to brighten the third floor corridor. To Miss Cutter, we leave our special victory garden consisting entirely of legumes. To Miss Bowers, we leave a class of girls who appreciate her knack of giving good advice concerning difficult problems. To Miss Scena, we leave a year when her classes are comprised of fresh- men, sophomores, and juniors and no noisy seniors. To Miss Goudreault, Miss Foristall and Mrs. Moriarty, we leave a class of girls with the ideas of Schiaperelli, the brains of Nettie Rosenstein, and the figure of Lana Turner. To Miss Bishop, we leave our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery and a bright future. To Miss C. McCarthy, we leave our admiration for her cheerful dispo- sition. To Miss Regan, we leave a class of Joel Kuppermans. To Miss Coolidge, we leave a class of ten girls, eleven easy chairs, and a long hour each week to discuss her favorite topic-Current Events. 'l46l

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1944 Class Will We the underslgned bemg of unsound mmd lazy body and 4F do hereby declare thls to be our last w1ll and testament Any s1m1lar1ty between the provlsxons here and after set forth and common sense, elther null or vold IS by the habeus corpus status quo laws, purely accldental unpremedrtated and undesxrable 'Io Mlss Dlckson we leave our respect love adm1rat1on and a w1sh for good luck from every member of our Semor Class To Mlss Shea we leave our best wishes and the hope that she has en joyed her Fnrst Senlor Class as much as we have enjoyed her We Llso leave her a solld gold File m whxch to keep a l1st ofthe tardy g1rls To Mr O Connor we leave a Semor Class wh1ch after graduatlon class nlght and the class glft stlll IS able to leave a good many dollars for the succeedmg c ass To Mr Malone, we leave a box Ol-VIIZRITIII1 tablets IH case he should ever run out of h1s aboundlng energy To Mlss Torpey we leave a copy of our newly edlted autoblography entltled Why a Glrl Changes When She Becomes a Senlor Thls IS one book we have read To MISS Wllhams we leave a half do7en cha1rs w1th neon slgns readlng To Mlss Nolan we leave a new French telephone wlth a prlvate lme To Mr Dullea we leave a class ln Ancxent Hxstory hat concentrates on Rome and Caesar and not on the teacher To Mlss Palm we leave an Enlerprzse box crammed full of l1'ltCl'CStlI1g materlal We also leave her the Majesty ofMemor1al To Mrs ennlngs we leave a posltlon as personnel manager at the Mem orlal Department Store comprlsed exclus1vely of our grrls To Mlss McMahon we leave a class of glrls who never abuse a pr1v1lege To Mlss Barker we leave ten female robots for her excluslve messengers To Mlss L McCarthy, we leave Eve thousand bracelets on whlch our locker keys are to be placed, so that lf a key IS lost an arm must also be found To Mxss Llttle we leave a pr1or1ty for a new mlmeograph machme that turns out every letter IH a umform shade To MISS Gale, we leave orderly well kept files and eH'lc1ent gllls as a complement to a business llke teacher To M1 Balcomb we leave a one ton safe comblnatlon to be placed on the huge Enzerprzse money box so that he may appear professxonal when removmg three cents for the exchange stamps To Mlss Greany we leave recordlngs of our Five mlnute bxographles of famous people To Mlss Loughran we leave a water tap to be Installed beslde her desk at her dlsposal at all tlmes To Mlss Rlordan we leave a class of glrls who eat wlth the manners of Emlly Post 445 O 1 1 y A 1 ' 7 ' U 2 -J , . . , , . Y Y J 7 1 l ' . z , .. . . ' ' 7 x 7 7 7 3 Y 'W l . 7 ' as - - as ' - , . , , ., . . . . Property of MISS Wllllams-not to be taken from the Receptlon Room. , . . , t , . ' in ' ' In ' J 1 l l ' . . l . H , . . U , . 4 , : . , . 7 n y - . .Q , - x x , I x - P ' 7 7 lf

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1944 To Miss Connors, we leave a lemon tree to be sweetened by her pleasant disposition. To Miss Hicks, we leave a never-ending sum of money so that she may show all her girls the art of the world. To Miss Matson, we leave a fraternity pin as a secret pact between her and her sixth period French class of 1943. To Miss Ryan, Miss Clifford, and Miss Powers, we leave one hundred sixty new typewriters with blank keyboards so that the girls may have no fear of looking at the keys. To Miss Nash, we leave an executive position in Washington with forty secretaries, graduates of you know where. To Mr. Shea, we leave a radio with an international hook-up so that all the world may hear his charming and romantic voice. , To Mrs. Hession and Dr. Butler, we leave a modern, well-equipped lab- oratory and operating room to handle the How of severe headaches and upset stom- aches so common during school hours. To Miss Bullard, we leave an exclusive Fifth Avenue Shoppe vacated by Lilly Dache and sought for by John Fredericks. Here she may display her famous originals, previewed in our class play, I Have Five Daughters. To Mr. Daly, we leave a new set of pin-up girls for his supply room. To Miss Chapin, we leave an appointment as chief chef in Buckingham Palace in order to prove to the world what we in Memorial already know-that her food is Ht for a king. To Miss Estabrook, Miss Johnson, and Miss Cogan, we leave four hun- dred thousand linoleum squares to be used to inlay a new floor for skating at the Gar- dens. To Miss Connell and Miss Hartnett, our pleasant secretaries, we leave a secretary who will remain throughout the school year. To the Class of 1945, we leave our desks, somewhat antiquated by former drawings but with surrealist touches by the Class of 1944. To the Class of 1946, we leave war stamps and bonds, Christmas decora- tions, nfty-cent dues, and all the joys that the Junior year will bring them. To the Class of 1947, we leave the bright hopes needed after leaving so dark, gloomy, and foreboding a basement as ours. To the Class of 1948, we leave three floors, each a maize of winding cor- ridors and locker rooms, one thousand majestic upper classmen, and homerooms only four paces from the lunch room. Finally, to the school, to teachers, to each and everyone, to lower classmen and everyone associated with our school, to all, WE LEAVE! Given in the executive mansion of Her Majesty, Insanity, in the Memor- ial Recuperation Hospital, on this day Monday, February 28, 1944. Signed X CClass of 19445 VVitnessed by: Ann Onymous Dr. Psycho Pathic O. B. Quiet Attested by: Marcia Kalus 'I47 lr